[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Soliciting sponsorship (was: WIP: avfilter: add Bungee audio stretch filter (PR #20697))

[Zhao Zhili via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>]

> On Oct 14, 2025, at 18:53, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM Nicolas George via ffmpeg-devel
> <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>> 
>> michaelni (HE12025-10-13):
>>> Also you would have to convince the community, that we want this. iam
>>> not sure how the community would think about it, but for example you
>>> could offer to donate a percentage of your profits from this to
>>> ffmpeg.
>> 
>> Hi. I procrastinated replying about soliciting sponsorships, but if it
>> looks like that I cannot anymore. Also, it must not be discussed in the
>> dark of an obscure pull request, it needs to be seen on the
>> mailing-list.
>> 
>> If this is how us soliciting sponsorships looks like, then we must
>> absolutely not do it.
>> 
>> “Pay us and we will consider ignoring the qualms we have about the
>> licensing issues of your contribution” is already very bad by itself. It
>> is even badder when we realize it is only one step from “pay us and we
>> will consider ignoring the qualms we have about the poor quality of your
>> code”.
>> 
>> Ideally, accepting contributions should be judged on the merits of the
>> contribution itself: is the code beautiful? does it bring practical
>> benefit to our users? Out of necessity we have to add: will this be
>> properly maintained? But no more.
>> 
>> We can solicit sponsorship, sure, but even the appearance that the money
>> is a tit-for-tat for getting one's code into the project, getting
>> excellent publicity and future maintenance work for cheap, would be
>> extremely detrimental.
>> 
> 
> I agree.
> There's is definitely a discussion to be had about the reasons FFmpeg
> accepts a third-party lib. There are now many libs being proposed into
> FFmpeg as marketing exercises.
> 
> I also think we should encourage people to maintain and more

Should or shouldn’t? I’m a little confused.

> importantly test their own repositories of FFmpeg with their open
> source or proprietary libs (on Forgejo?).
> 
> Regards,
> Kieran Kunhya
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